Acer Aspire One AOA110-1995 8.9-Inch Seashell White Netbook -

Price: $599.99

Aspire One Atom N270 Intel 945GSE, 8.9-inch Display; 1GB Memory, 8GB+8GB SDD; Integrated MR; UMA only, Webcam, NO HDMI, 802.11 b/g Wireless Card; 3 cell battery; XP Home; White

Acer Aspire One AOA110-1995 8.9-Inch Seashell White Netbook – 2.5 Hour Battery Life

Features

Full-function laptop in seashell white with 8.9-inch display, integrated webcam, and 3-cell battery with up to 2.5-hours of use
16 GB total storage (8 GB NAND Drive, 8 GB SD card), 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB max)
54g Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g). 10/100 Ethernet. Intel GMA 950 graphics
Connectivity: 3 USB, 1 headphone, 1 microphone, Secure Digital slot, multi-format memory card slot, VGA monitor output
Pre-installed with Windows XP Home operating system

User Reviews

When I first got this laptop, is was appalled at the setup time. Then, I was upset at how slow it ran. But, for some reason, ASUS decided to include a whole bunch of unnecessary junk. For instance, they included DVD player software, for a laptop that has no optical drive. Now, I know that they are paid by the software developers to include versions of software on their computers, but this case is a little bit excessive. So, I installed Ubutnu from a USB thumb drive (you can pick these up for next to nothing, and downloading Ubutnu is free and legal) and I finally had a laptop that preformed well enough to actually surf the web/edit text documents/etc. If you're interested, you can find instructions for installing Ubutnu at [...] *note:these instructions are probably not for beginning users. if you are somewhat familiar with Windows, and you have another computer to follow along with or you can print the instructions out, you should be fine. If you are not all that comfortable with computers, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS as you can cause your laptop to stop working, in which case you would have to pay a computer repair tech to fix the problems. -- REMOVE WINDOWS XP

I had pretty low expectations but using this netbook was much worse than I thought. The main issue here is the system keeps stalling and cannot present even simple Youtube videos without getting stuck constantly. Even remove all memory resident apps, including anti-virus and using the Google Chrome didn't get it to reasonable working condition. Also the keyboard and touch pad are the worst I have ever seen.

Stay away. Spend 100$ more for a real low-end laptop and you won't regret it. -- Pretty bad experience

ok, this is a fine netbook. The typical netbook spec (1.6 atom cpu, integrated graphics, 1gb ram...),
which is same as most more expensive netbooks (with large sata hard drives).
runs most streaming videos flawlessly, (hulu, HQ on youtube, though not HD...)
and even 720p HD videos (not streaming 720p, due to software limitations by flash).

but this specific version of Aspire One, (Acer Aspire One AOA110) use a very slow SSD.
this specific SSD's write speed is very slow, with random pauses during extensive use.
Its low write speed slows down almost everything, even web surfing.

you can replace SSD with... a real SSD (1.8" zif), or a 1.8" pata zif hard drives.
if you're thinking of buying this, only do so if this is much cheaper than the hard drive version. -- Great! except..

When I bought one of these netbooks they are great. When I got it out of the box I was ready to play with it. After 2 days it worked great. When I downloaded Software Informer it said that my HD audio driver was out of date so I downloaded a new update. After a system restart
I started getting this real bad fatal error called /system32/hal.dll missing error. The bad thing about this is that my netbook started to break, so I tried to hunt around for the built in recovery software. Get this! It did not HAVE ANY recovery software!! So I was sad and very upset and did not know how to reinstall a copy of a missing file. Then I had no choice but to install Ubuntu 9.04 linux OS until I get the "erecovery" CD-ROM I need to bring the netbook up to specifications and also install ubuntu along with it. Please remember this, when you first boot up after out of the box try to make a recovery CD-ROM if not available purchase one of them. Acer needs to wake up and realize that all of their netbooks need a recovery partition because when you are outside and the PC starts crashing how are you supposed to fix it. And as a bonus Acer should include Ubuntu software for advantages and more educational computing experience, especially for the students and emergency computing.
-- Love This Netbook, But Needs A Better Recovery Plan

Got this Acer netbook to use mostly for email and internet. Granted, my satellite internet service is already slower than broadband, but the Acer is way slower than my regular laptop online. Maybe it's the particular model, with only 2.5 hourse of battery life. But I wouldn't buy it again. -- Acer Aspire One AOA110-1995 is sloooow.